West Brom boss Tony Mowbray says he'll always be reluctant to wreck his wage structure.

"It has always been a belief of mine that you should try to keep some sort of parity in the dressing room with salaries and structures," Mowbray said. "I think the dressing room is almost a living, breathing organism that you need to manage. So it goes against the grain for me, when you are trying to build a team ethos, to have certain players on two, three or four times the salary of other players who are just as important cogs.

"I find the concept of paying the centre-forward five times more than the right-back, left-back or centre-half not right, because the left-back has got to mark Cristiano Ronaldo.

"It goes against my own ethos, philosophies and beliefs because I like to keep parity on salaries. And yet it hasn't worked this year and if we do find ourselves out of the division and manage to bounce straight back, it is something that would need further discussion.

"If we felt changing the policy would benefit the club that is something that might have to happen. 'But we're not in that scenario at the moment and we can all sit here and say that is the only reason, but I don't think it is."